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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
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With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.
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My father was a patriarch inside a matriarchy, but never knew it.
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Every good time that goes on too long turns into a hell.
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Wisdom is founded on memory happiness on forgetfulness.
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Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.
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Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.
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If your nose is up in the air, you cannot see where you are going.
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Clouds of flavors and savors float around the thing-in-itself.
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Self-deception is nature hypocrisy is art.
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Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.
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Victory brings obliviousness defeat, attentiveness.
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Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports.
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Helplessness is a mighty power.
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Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute.
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The more powerless people are, the longer they are kept waiting.
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In middle age, going naked contributes little to public enjoyment.
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Everyone makes sexy sounds relatively few, sexy sights.
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Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.
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I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books.
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